Sunday, January 12, 2014

Robert Frank says we should pay more attention to growing inequality and "public policies that might contain it":

The Vicious Circle of Income Inequality, by Robert Frank, Commentary, NY Times: ...Given the grave threats to the social order that extreme inequality has posed in other countries, it’s easy to see why the growing income gap is poised to become the signature political issue of 2014. Low- and middle-income Americans don’t appear to be on the threshold of revolt. But the middle-class squeeze continues to tighten, and it would be imprudent to consider ourselves immune. So if growing inequality has become a self-reinforcing process, we’ll want to think more creatively about public policies that might contain it. ...

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'The Vicious Circle of Income Inequality'

Robert Frank says we should pay more attention to growing inequality and "public policies that might contain it":

The Vicious Circle of Income Inequality, by Robert Frank, Commentary, NY Times: ...Given the grave threats to the social order that extreme inequality has posed in other countries, it’s easy to see why the growing income gap is poised to become the signature political issue of 2014. Low- and middle-income Americans don’t appear to be on the threshold of revolt. But the middle-class squeeze continues to tighten, and it would be imprudent to consider ourselves immune. So if growing inequality has become a self-reinforcing process, we’ll want to think more creatively about public policies that might contain it. ...